Of course, the UN Security cannot consider such a step unless a proposal is brought before it and agreed upon.

Meantime, an AP report quotes Russia's Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin as saying that "NATO, the EU and other stakeholders (should decide) to carry out not a maritime operation, but a land operation that would eradicate pirates bases along the coast."

Ambassador Rogozin is quoted as saying that that, six months ago at a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, he proposed a combined land operation between Russian and the NATO alliance that would target the pirates.